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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

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American - Athlete Born: November 22, 1943

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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life. Billie Jean King

Life, Sports, Character

Champions keep playing until they get it right. - Billie Jean King

Champions keep playing until they get it right. Billie Jean King

Sports, Champions, Right

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. - Billie Jean King

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. Billie Jean King

Success, Winning, Champion

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. Billie Jean King

Sports, Action, Tennis

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing. Billie Jean King

Care, Game, You

Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody. Billie Jean King

People, Gay, Know

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed. Billie Jean King

Changes, World, Who

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever. Billie Jean King

Losing, Victory, Forever

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. Billie Jean King

Bold, You, Afraid

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. Billie Jean King

Champion, Important, Think

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman. Billie Jean King

Business, Sports, Women

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it. Billie Jean King

Father, Woman, Husband

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself. Billie Jean King

Myself, Care, Me

If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that. Billie Jean King

Respect, Partner, You

Sports are a microcosm of society. Billie Jean King

Sports, Society, Microcosm

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks. Billie Jean King

Chance, People, Risks

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional. Billie Jean King

Leader, Man, Tough

I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually. Billie Jean King

World, Think, You

It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences. Billie Jean King

Celebrate, Start, Important

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport. Billie Jean King

Change, Day, Tennis

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. Billie Jean King

Time, Fall, Girl

Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready. Billie Jean King

You, Ready, Will

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team. Billie Jean King

Women, Best, Team

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport. Billie Jean King

Team, Help, Tennis

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me. Billie Jean King

Life, Money, Great

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side. Billie Jean King

Love, Business, Coaching

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